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- port-handler v41.3
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- COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
- port-handler v41 is copyrighted 1998/99 by Stephan Rupprecht. All
- rights reserved. This program is freeware, so no financial donations
- required. Redistribution allowed if the package is left unchanged.
- The author is not responsible for any damage caused by the use or
- misuse of this documentation and/or the program(s) it describes.
-
- port-handler is partly based on:
- ComHandler.c (C) 1989, 1993 by Ralph Babel, Amiga Guru Book p.643ff
- Port-Handler.asm (C) 1986 John A. Toebes, VIII (AmigaLibDisk #20)
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- REQUIREMENTS
- Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with at least OS2.04.
-
- DESCRIPTION
- port-handler v41 replaces the original l:port-handler that manages
- the AmigaDOS devices SERx:, PAR: and PRT:. In opposite to the original
- handler my version allows you to create new dos devices that can
- manage the ports of an i/o-board (pre v41 port-handlers didn't support
- third-party parallel devices). The following mountlist entry illustrates
- how to create a new device called HPAR: that accesses hyperPAR.device
- (HyperCOM io-boards by VMC) for reading and writing.
-
- HPAR:
- EHandler = L:port-handler
- Stacksize = 1024
- Priority = 5
- Device = hyperPAR.device
- Unit = 0
- Flags = 0
- Baud = 0
- #
-
- Please note the 'Baud' field which must be set to 0 for parallel
- devices!
-
- INSTALLATION
- All you need is to copy the file "port-handler" to your "L:" drawer.
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- PROBLEMS
- Mount v40 and later crashs if you try to mount a EHandler twice!
-
- SPECIAL THANKS GO TO
- Stephan Riedelbeck for testing port-handler on his system and debugging.
- Jens Gerrit Schröder for giving me the idea of rewriting the handler.
- Thomas Richter for his help with the BCPL magic.
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- HISTORY
- 41.0 first public release
- 41.1 port-handler is a single file now. Thanks to Th. Richter for his
- help.
- 41.2 Compiled/Optimized with GNUC. included dosdrivers for all HyperCOM
- boards.
- 41.2a No changes, just added some new dosdrivers for the ioblix board by
- RBM.
- 41.3 reduced filesize a bit :) A warning about mount v40+ has been
- added to the doc. prt:raw didn't work, baud rate and control
- information following the device name were ignored (eg. ser:9600/8n1).
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- AUTHOR
- Stephan Rupprecht
- Apfeldweg 1
- D-44359 Dortmund
- Germany
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- email:
- stephan.rupprecht@gmx.de
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